February 23, 1878

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Features

Liquefaction of Gases-Cailletet's Experiments

Arctic Explorations

Paradoxes in Steam

The Carbolic Acid or Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds

What Steam has Done for France

Improvement of Rivers

Printing the Patents

The Washington Naval Observatory

The Bon Ton Game

Improved Draughtsman's Table

Improved Method for Drying Lumber

Vanier's Improved Brick Machine

Baugh's Patent Sectional Mill

Communications

Vitt's Improved Grain Toller

Professor S. N. Carvalho's New System of Superheating Steam

A Turkish Ironclad

The Horned Tragopan

Sadlier's New Method of Raising and Lowering Screw Propellers

Astronomical Notes

By Berlin H. Wright

The Physiological Influence of Barometric Pressure

Departments

Departments

Business and Personal

New Books and Publications

Notes and Queries

Index of Inventions

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